Bottle-stopper



' (No Model.)

' 0. J. MALONE.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 590,791. Patented Sept. 28, 1897.

' PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES JOSEPH MALONE, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPEGIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,791, datedSeptember 28, 1897.

Application filed May 17, 1897. Serial No. 636,874. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES JOSEPH MA- LONE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Sacramento, county of Sacramento, State ofCalifornia, have invented an Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same.

My invent-ion relates to a device for hermetically closing bottles forthe purpose of preventing the surreptitious refilling of such bottlesafter they have been emptied.

It consists, essentially, in the employment of a peculiarly-shapedyielding stopper in conjunction with an exterior glass stopper, withcorresponding faces fitting together and a means for locking the same inplace, together with a frangible section of the bottleneck for thepurpose of removing the outer glass stopper and exposing the inner oneto be removed in the ordinary manner.

It also consists in details of construction, which will be more fullyexplained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1is'a section showing the interior and the stoppers. Fig. 2 is anexterior view of the bottle-neck, showing the frangible line offracture.

A is the neck of a bottle of any usual or suitable shape. The interiorof this neck has a groove or channel with a shoulder or offset a, whichis adapted to be engaged by a glass stopper B, having a shoulder Z)formed upon it,

and adapted to engage the shouldered groove a in the bottle-neck.

In order to close the bottle after it has been filled, I employ ayielding cork or stopper 0,-

which is out with an inclined or beveled surface upon its upper or outerend. This is introduced into the bottle-neck, and the glass stopper,which has the inner end formed with a corresponding incline or bevel, ispushed into the bottle-neck after the cork has been introduced. Thebeveled ends overlapping and meeting each other will be suiiicientlyelastic to allow the shoulder b of the glass.

the glass stopper to be removed.

broken for the purpose of opening it, allow The cork or inner stopper isthen withdrawn by a corkscrew or any suitable means, and it acts as awiper to clear away any particles of broken [glass and prevent theirgetting into the contents of the bottle. The inner end of the neck ischoked or made enough smaller than the main portion to prevent the corkfrom being forced into the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bottle having a neck formed with an interior shoulder which extendsaround one of its sides only, a yielding cork or stopper having theouter end beveled or inclined and adapted to fit into the neck of thebottle below the shoulder, an exterior glass stopper having the innerend beveled to fit the outer end of the yielding stopper and having ashoulder formed about one of its sides to engage the shoulder in theinterior of the neck whereby the outer stopper is locked in place.

2. A bottle, the neck of which has an interior shoulder at one side, ayielding stopper adapted to fit the neck of the bottle below theshoulder having an inclined or beveled outer end, a rigid stopper havinga shoulder projecting from one side and adapted to engage the shoulderwithin the bottle-neck and the inner end beveled to fit and coincidewith the beveled end of the yielding stopper whereby the latter willyield to allow the shoulder of the rigid exterior stopper to pass and111- terlock with the shoulder of thebottle-neck.

3. A bottle having an interior lockinggroove on shoulder extending onlypartially around it, a yielding and a rigid stopper adapted to beintroduced successively into the bottle-neck, the two having beveled orinclined meeting faces, the rigid exterior stopper having a shoulderpartially encir- 7 CHARLES JOSEPH MALONE.

\Vitnesses:

G. D. Cox,

J. S. MOINNIS.

